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41) Sidewinders
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Scratch Morton and Bo Creel are decent, likable drifters - their youth far behind them - who live by their wits and take cowboy jobs to make a few dollars to keep drifting with. though basically honest, Scratch and Bo aren't above breaking the law, especially those against spitting in public in Texas, and vagrancy in Missouri.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Yancy Grey is slowly putting his life back together after serving time for petty theft. As he rebuilds an old house, he finally has a sense of stability, but he can't stop thinking of himself as just an ex-con. Until one night, he finds a mysterious dark-haired beauty hiding in his loft. But who is she, and what secret is she protecting? The art gallery Parker Lacey manages is her life -- she has no time for friends, and certainly not lovers....
43) Hard rain
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"From the Tony Hillerman Prize-winning author of Pay Dirt Road comes Hard Rain, Samantha Jayne Allen's mesmerizing next novel set in a hardscrabble Texas town dealing with disaster. In shock and found clinging to a tree branch, Bethany Richter is pulled from thrashing floodwaters that have decimated the town of Garnett, Texas and killed a dozen others. Six months after solving the murder of a local waitress, Annie McIntyre is working as an apprentice...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Rides a stranger : Coffin Flats, NM is a nothing town in the middle of nowhere. Jim Glass is hired by Marshal Chalk Bronson because he's good with his fists and his gun but a hothead named Johnny Waco is threatening to burn Coffin Flats down if his runaway wife isn't returned to him.
A bullet for Billy : Captain Gus Rodgers of the Texas Rangers is dying but before he goes, he needs Jim Glass's help to free his grandson from a Mexican prison.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Tinhorn, Texas, is a small town, quiet and peaceful. Sheriff Buck Jackson and Deputy Flint Moran go to great pains to keep it that way. So when two drifters arrive in town--one nursing a bullet wound--the lawmen suspect trouble ain't far behind. Bart McCoy and Roy Tate claim to be cattlemen and have more than enough cash to prove it. But Buck and Flint don't believe Tate's story of accidentally shooting McCoy while cleaning his gun. Then four more...
49) Summer breezes
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
This summer, relax with two breezy tales of how opposites attract. Because sometimes very different people can make a perfect match.
The Way to a Man's Heart: On the surface, Meghan O'Day and Grey Carlyle seem like they couldn't be more different. But stuffy literature professor Grey keeps coming back to the diner where bubbly Meghan works--and it's not just for the coffee and pie. They both love chatting about books, and Meghan has opinions on the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019].
Description
"In Mark Haines's former life, he was an evangelical youth pastor, a role model, and a family man--until he abandoned his wife, his daughter, and his beliefs. Now he's marking time between sunny days surfing and dark nights working security at an industrial complex. His isolation is broken when Cindy, a charming twenty-two-year old drifter he sees hitchhiking on the Pacific Coast Highway, hustles him for a breakfast and a place to crash--two cynical...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
"The book begins on the eighth birthday of Ethan "E.A." Allen in the remote village of Kingdom Common, Vermont. Noted for its fervent, if unrequited, devotion to the Boston Red Sox, the village sports a replica of Fenway Park's Green Monster on top of the local baseball bat factory. Here, in a region that lags decades behind the rest of New England, E.A. lives with his honky-tonk mother, Gypsy Lee, and the acid-tongued Gran, wheelchair-bound since...
52) Blackwood
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
The town of Red Bluff, Mississippi, has seen better days, though those who've held on have little memory of when that was. Myer, the county's aged, sardonic lawman, still thinks it can prove itself -- when confronted by a strange family of drifters, the sheriff believes that the people of Red Bluff can be accepting, rational, even good. The opposite is true: this is a landscape of fear and ghosts -- of regret and violence -- transformed by the kudzu...
Author
Series
Ezekiel Flagg volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Zeke Smith is a drifter, a former bounty hunter, army scout, and lawman trying to escape from, and make up for, his violent and passionate past. Along his journey of self-imposed penance and exile, he aids others in difficulty wherever he stops and stays. Arriving in the quiet Arizona town of Pleasant Grove, he discovers that the town does not live up to its name. A corrupt marshal and his criminal deputies run roughshod and unchecked over the citizens...
Author
Series
Westward to home volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"An arranged marriage to save the family from ruin? Delia Blackstone knows what her mother is up to--she intends to marry her off to an older man who is all fortune and no future. And Delia's having none of it. When a mysterious visitor appears on the family doorstep and offers an opportunity for Delia to travel from Pennsylvania to Colorado, Delia knows it is time for her to strike out on her own and discover a new life. Along the way she encounters...
56) Wendy and Lucy
Description
Wendy is a down-on-her-luck girl who's hoping to turn things around for herself with a summer job in Alaska, but finds herself stranded with no money in a small Oregon town.
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
It was a summer like any other in this sleepy southern town, until a mysterious drifter named Eli Cottonmouth charms the townsfolk with a simple proposition for their upcoming anniversary celebration. But behind this picture-perfect community, two boys will now discover a secret world of mysteries, lies and tragedy that will change all their lives forever.
60) Deepwater
Pub. Date
p2004
Description
A young orphaned drifter (Nat) sets out in pursuit of a farm job in Wyoming. Along the way he comes across a car accident and saves the life of the driver, who offers him a handyman job in the town of Deepwater, West Virginia. Nat is unknowingly lured into a world where nothing is as it seems.